STAAR Review Day 7: Westward Expansion

Officially ended the Mexican-American war and established new borders between the US and Mexico.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Belief that the US should own land from coast to coast, caused by population boom and the desire to acquire more land for resources

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Provided the US with land to expand the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Doubled the size of the US and opened to door for westward expansion

• Gadsden Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalogo

Which location on the map was ceded to the United States by Mexico in the mid-1800s?

• A

• B

• C

• D

• E

Many Chinese immigrants came to the US to...

• Search for gold in Sutter's Mill

• Flee political termoil

• Escape a country wide famine

• Create new religious communities

Which of the following best completes the diagram?

• Slave holding state

• Bordered by the pacific

• Formerly part of Mexico

• Dependent on heavy industry

      Resolved, That our title to the whole of the Territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the re-occupation of Oregon and the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period are great American measures, which this Convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union. -Democratic Party Platform of 1844

This excerpt provides evidence that in 1844 Democrats supported -

• federal financing of transportation systems in the West

• making Manifest Destiny an official federal policy

• social Darwinism as a justification for expansion

• prohibiting the expansion of slavery into new areas of the United States

What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorize President Jackson to do?

• Negotiate treaties to relocate American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River

• Declare war on any American Indian tribe who resisted the relocation treaties

• Remove American Indians from their lands and place them in English speaking boarding schools

• Forcibly relocate all American Indians from their lands to reservations in the Eastern US

During Andrew Jackson's presidency, who would have strongly supported protective tariffs?

• Southerners because they helped lower the prices of necessary goods

• Southerners because they encouraged people to buy goods manufactured in the US

• Northerners because they encouraged people to buy goods manufactured in the US

• Northerners because they helped lower the prices of necessary goods